Last August, I alerted readers of this blog to the Department of Financial Protection & Innovation's determination to require all existing licensees under the California Financing Law to transition to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System. The...
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Nonprofit organizations depend heavily upon their volunteers. What if a court were to hold that volunteers were in fact employees entitled to minimum and overtime wages, meal and rest breaks, wage statements and other benefits required by law? The...
Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to amend its rules to require issuers to disclose share repurchases within one business day on a new Form SR. The SEC based its proposal on its thesis that "information asymmetries"...
Item 601(b)(5)(i) of Regulation S-K requires that all filings under the Securities Act of 1933 include as an exhibit an opinion of counsel regarding the legality of the securities being registered, indicating whether they will, when sold, be legally...
In this post, Professor Stephen Bainbridge posits that the Delaware Supreme Court incorrectly decided Fliegler v. Lawrence, 361 A.2d 218 (Del. 1976) by requiring that stockholder approval of conflicted transaction requires a majority vote of the...
Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it was proposing a new rule under the Exchange Act. In an accompanying "fact sheet", the SEC said that it was doing so "to increase transparency and efficiency in the opaque...
Liz Dunzhee wrote yesterday in the Mentor Blog:
Hay and solar power must needs be made whilst the sun shines. Demand for electricity, however, does not end when the sun sets. The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project sought to overcome this problem by using heliostats to focus the sun's heat on a...
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